‘Hunters’ Mixes Nazis, Heroes, Al Pacino to Examine Scars of Holocaust

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“Hunters,” like “Man in the High Castle” and “Jojo Rabbit,” reexamines the scars of World War II

The concept sounds straightforward: Al Pacino plays the leader of a secret squad of Jews hunting down Nazi officials living undercover in America circa 1977 and plotting a comeback.

But the streaming TV series “Hunters”—landing Friday on Amazon Prime Video—takes a risky approach in executing the idea. Its disparate ingredients include a revenge fantasy with bursts of stylized violence, homages to comic-book mythology and campy ’70s action cinema, and World War II flashbacks that present harrowing concentration-camp...

 

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I enjoyed, although pretty graphic.

Overdone.

Would rather see someone hunting old commies

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